Why the US police kill so many people.

The reason why the US police kill so many people is because they have a very high rate of shots compared to other countries, for example



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In one year German police used 85 bullets in total and some were shot at animals. The report notes two individual US police shootings that involved 84 and 90 shots fired at one person.





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Michael Brown had six shots fired at him. That is one more than the British police fired in the whole of 2011/12 and of the five only two were killed.



The UK police are no where near as likely to keep on firing as the US police, indeed the most shots fired in one incident I can find is 11 bullets used against Jean Charles de Menezes a Brazilian mistaken for a terrorist and shot on the London tube in 2005. Then eight shots were fired by police at the two males who killed soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich in 2013. Both survived and are now in prison for life.



Here the Michigan Police shoot a man 46 times.



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So the evidence is of US police officers having a lack of restraint and they just keep firing, so reducing the chances of people living and justice being served. Yet the UK and Germany manage not to do that.

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